The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17

Time ne can NC iOCahSu III DVStOu.
Miss Augusta Van Doren is visit
ing friends in Boston. Pope" her
big st. Bernard dog, is her escort.
Miss Adelaide Moore sails for
Europe June LIST. She will fill star
ring engagements in England next
season.
James T. Powers, of Hoyt's Tin
Soldier" Company, has been engaged
for the Casino Company, opening in
June.
Harry Mann, the manager Of Ev-
ans aud Hoey, and Charles Evans
sail for Europe Nay 9th in the City
oil rome.
Frederick Warde is acting in the
large cities Of Kansas, en- route to
San Francisco, where he opens May
I'd in Richard Ill"
Prof. Robert Harper, from the
Royal Polytechnic in London, is ex-
hibiting a fue series OF views of
London and Europe, in the Old Lon
don Street.
Denman Thompson has passed the
100 mile stone at the Fourteenth
Street Theater, where the rush to see
the "0ld Homestead" continues I'M
abated.
Edwin Booth appears in Salt Lake
City this week, thence to Cheyenne,
Denver, Omaha, st. Joseph and
Kansas City, closing his tour in the
latter city, April Both.
w. J. Seaman, in the Irish Min
strel," drew 1890 Monday evening
at the Walnut Street Theater in
Philadelphia, the largest opening
night of the season at that house.
w. j. Seaman renewed his tour
last Monday in Philadelphia. His
route for the next three weeks is as
follows: April 18th, Harlem, N Y. :;
25th, Brooklyn, N. Y; May I'd, Peo-
pies Theater, New York City.
The Deacon's Daughter" in
which Miss Annie Pixley appears
April 25th, at the Union Square The
alter, tells the story of New England
girl who comes to New York and be-
comes a popular actress.
Patti Rosa, the young Western &C
tress. makes her first appearance in
the East as a star next Monday night
at the Grand Opera House in Brook
Ign. She will be seen in Bob" and
Zip" two of Lotta'S familiar plays.
Mrs. Langtry begins an engage
ment of two weeks at the Fifth Ave
nue. Theater, April 25th, opening in
Lady Clancarthy." On July 4th
she appears in San Francisco, closing
her season July 10th. Mr.. Joseph
p, Reynolds has charge of her bust
ness.
The original Stanley Macy Compa,
ny, which includes Stanley Macy,
Laura Dinsmore, j. w. Grath, Miss
Boschell and others, begins a tour in
the New England cities April 18th,
appearing in a new musical comedy
by Frank w. Paul, Fred Meader and
Robert Fraser, called &c. o. D."
Verona Jarbeau will star next
season in a comic opera called Chic
Chic" Her husband j eff Bernstein,
will be her manager. The scene Of
the opera is on an island in the
Southern Pacific ocean. As the eli
mate there is exceedingly warm it is
not likely that the ladies of the com
pany will wear many clothes.
w. j. Seaman has been made an
honorary member of the Historical
Society of Texas, for which he col
lects here and there objects Of histor-
ical interest. 1t is said that in ey-
cry town he comes tosds goes among
old shops in search of something
worth sending away to Texas. Among
the contributions already sent to the
collection is a characteristic letter
from Edwin Booth dated New York,
December l, 1870.
Robert Dawning's manager, j. II.
Mack, has bought from Mrs. Il. l..
Davenport the play of "St. Mare"
He has also procured a drama de-
picting the life of Cromwell, and
showing that gigantic historical char
acter in another light than it has
been presented in any other drama.
Mr.. Downing's first season has been
attended with substantial results,
and he has fairly secured a position
among the few tragedians whose per-
formances are attended by nantes
tations of popular favor and approx
al. Not little OF the result has
been due to the diligence of Manager
Mack. Mr.. Mack has brought his
star into notice by system of ad-
yertising as unique as it has beea
liberal, and 10 Mr.. DOwning's tri-
umphs the work of the skillful man
ager is seen at every turn.
Robert B. Mantell will have next
season a new play which is to be en-
titled "El Americana. The plot
was constructed by Mr.. Augustus
Pitou, the manager Of both Mr..
and Mr.. Scanlan, and the
will be done by John W.
Kellar, the author of Tangled
Lives" The play is in FIVE acts and
is drama of incident. The chief
are Americans and the
scene will be laid in Mexico. Mr..
Mantell will play the part of a typic-
al young American business man of
education, refinement and wide eX-
Derience OF the world, who goes to
Mexico as one OF a syndicate of New
York bankers who have purchased
mines there. In Mexico he en-
counters, besides his fate in the
lorm of woman, plots and counter
plots, and has several narrow escapes
with his lite.